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Dead SD card
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on July 09, 2010, 06:08:50 PM ---in the past I used PCInspector or something along those lines to recover pics from an MSPD card. (Had deleted them and then my HDD died).
On the other hand, it wasn't a reformat? Dunno. I'll go home later and double check the software.
I had problems getting anything using recuva though.
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Hmm. So that was a recover from a working card that had deleted files, right?
Biggest problem for me is that the computer can't even communicate with the card...
Anyway, I got Image Rescue 3 off TPB (hope saying that here isn't disallowed). With the SD card inserted, I'm trying to start the program. It starts up very fast without the card inserted, but it's taking forever when it is inserted. I guess I'll leave this for an hour or so...
fohfoh:
Try waiting a time period before trying. Sometimes the cards will "work" after a wait. My HDD was like that (I thought it was dead). Strangely enough, after a long period of time (several months) I decided to try again and see what would happen. The enclosure was pretty much fucked but the HDD was responding to direct plugging to a computer. So I tried that. The info is fucked. I tried several times. I got random stuff, but not the stuff I actually wanted. (Didn't even know my bro's stuff was on it).
Tried PCInspector, recuva and one other which I forget the name. (The last one was shitty as hell). I seriously got like 3GB Of worthless shit from a 500GB HDD.
But yes, a recover from a card that had deleted files. Did you ever consider finding a new card reader to try?
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on July 10, 2010, 05:12:03 AM ---Try waiting a time period before trying. Sometimes the cards will "work" after a wait. My HDD was like that (I thought it was dead). Strangely enough, after a long period of time (several months) I decided to try again and see what would happen. The enclosure was pretty much fucked but the HDD was responding to direct plugging to a computer. So I tried that. The info is fucked. I tried several times. I got random stuff, but not the stuff I actually wanted. (Didn't even know my bro's stuff was on it).
Tried PCInspector, recuva and one other which I forget the name. (The last one was shitty as hell). I seriously got like 3GB Of worthless shit from a 500GB HDD.
But yes, a recover from a card that had deleted files. Did you ever consider finding a new card reader to try?
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Though that's a HDD you're talking about. It's a mechanical device, so there's some hope there. A flash card isn't mechanical, so I doubt leaving it for a while would help.
I might give PCInspector a try though, because you were able to recover stuff from a failed drive, rather than deleted files on a working drive, which sounds more like my situation.
And well, the card can't be read on three different readers (phone, laptop, desktop card reader), and while I keep using the same adapter I don't think that makes a difference (because the phone takes microSD, while the laptop and desktop readers take SD). So I don't think getting another card reader would help unless it is specifically designed to force read cards and perhaps advertised as such.
Oddly enough, I notice a bit of excess heat coming from the card when I remove it from the computer when it's frozen (which effectively unfreezes the computer). I hope that's not a bad sign...
vuzedome:
Give R-Studio a shot, and I'm pretty sure you know where to look for it.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: vuzedome on July 10, 2010, 08:41:52 AM ---Give R-Studio a shot, and I'm pretty sure you know where to look for it.
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Heh, gotcha. Will try it after PCInspector. No luck so far though.
Edit: Giving up on PCInspector. When the card is not inserted, its disk detection system finds all the drives within 2 seconds. With the card inserted, it takes half an hour to an hour, and the card is not detected in the end. R-Studio, here goes.
Edit: So, I'm running version 5.2 portable. It's not picking up the card either, but it at least acknowledges that the card reader is there.
Edit: Gave up on portable and installed version 5.2. It's the same interface so it might be the same program, just running off the system drive. Also doesn't work. From here I think I'll try dd in Linux.
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